AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (215W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+367%
2.227 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
May 2007
FirePro
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
320
96
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.89 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
215W
600 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
R600
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
